I asked myself, “What is True?”And this is what I wrote: Various ideas come and go.Many of which lead to plans and decisions.Some of which I do.Not all of which are necessary or helpful. I get lost in many of the ideas.I lose myself.Instead I believe I am the hero of my ideas and feelings,The […]
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I am not born, I do not die
I am not born, I do not die The body is born, it has a birth day.And some day this body will die. The sense of self I call “me” is born later.As the young child I learned to differentiate myself from others and the rest of the world.I developed a sense of a separate […]
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Deep down, we all want to be treated with respect, to feel cared for and appreciated. None of us wants to feel criticized, rejected, or manipulated. To reduce it to its simplest terms, we each want to feel loved. I don’t mean loved in a romantic sense, or some outpouring of emotion; but simple caring. […]
Continue readingAn Intelligent Global Brain
When I wrote The Global Brain, forty years ago, we were in the very early stages of computer networking. These early networks soon became the Internet, and later the Worldwide Web. From that came a whole plethora of innovations: streaming video, online shopping, news and banking, social media, the cloud, and more; not to mention the […]
Continue readingThe Two Faces of Gratitude
Many have extolled the value of gratitude. “If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough,” said Meister Eckhart. In Rumi’s words: “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.” In our own times, Willie Nelson noticed that “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned […]
Continue readingConcentrating the Mind
We usually think of ‘concentrating the mind’ as focusing our attention on some experience — a process that can take effort and discipline, particularly if we are trying to keep the mind concentrated. While this approach can be useful at times, I find another interpretation of concentration equally valuable. The Latin root of ‘concentrate’ is […]
Continue readingDoing and Being
Why do I keep going into the doing mode? Moving from one task to another with hardly a break. Or when I’ve nothing urgent on, looking for something to do — check emails, or the news (again). Deep down, I must unconsciously believe that I will, in one way or another, feel better for getting […]
Continue readingAnchored in the Ground of Being
As many of you who’ve followed my thinking know, I’ve long been concerned with the unforeseen consequences of exponential growth, and the various crises it could lead to. And here we are in the middle of one – or rather the early days of one. We are witnessing an exponential escalation such that no one […]
Continue readingThere’s no such thing as ego.
There’s no such thing as ego. That doesn’t mean you and I don’t get caught up in egocentric thinking and behavior, but we are mistaken in thinking of the ego as some separate individual self, some “thing” in the mind. When I observe my own experience, I notice an unchanging sense of “I-ness” that has […]
Continue readingLoving Love
We love love. It’s one of our most basic needs, and one we’ll go great lengths to meet. But love is not something we find. It is our natural state of being. We need only remove the blocks to our awareness of its presence. That block is the ego-mind, which sees the world through the […]
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